Posted 20 July 2009 - 06:27 PM

Conceivably you may also need the IONetworkingFamily.kext, as well. There were, if memory serves correctly, quite a few interconnected kexts involved in the whole networking schtick.

However, getting that to work could prove -very- interesting, as I'm off to pick up an Asus 1008HA tomorrow, that sports an Atheros AR9285 wireless card...

Looks like you will have to install the entirety of the Snow Leopard alpha, or wait until the final release. I tried loading the Atheros kext with /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Library/ set as a secondary repository for kexts, and it resolved the dependencies but none of the modules loaded due to missing kernel stuff. If you want to do this for yourself to see the errors in case you can figure something out (I doubt it) or are just curious, then do the following in a terminal.

I wish this method would work, but it looks like nothing will short of a full install of Snow Leopard. I might try doing that, but it is iffy since alpha software tends to be alpha for a reason. lol Cheers.

Posted 21 July 2009 - 09:30 PM

I maintain, you're loading the dependencies of IO80211etc.kext but your operating system, which is basically a FreeBSD kernel with a kick ass gui, requires a -seperate- equal and not recursive module to work.

The "dependencies" aren't infinite. But I maintain, you're going to need the IONetworkingFamily.kext and probably the equivalent com.apple.etcetc to go with it. It might be a bit of a hassle, but if you can manage to clear up the dependancy problems, it should still be doable.

I just got my hands on my new little eee pc 1008ha this evening and still haven't manage to do anything more interesting than upgrade the ram to 2gb, so far. I did, however, make a point of getting my hands on an alpha copy of snow leopard. I'm going to work on getting it all up and running over the next few days. Experimentation may not be the thing I play around with however. I've also got a triple boot scenario I want to get working first. Once I get that sorted and the incidentals all up and working on the OSX installation, that's going to be the first thing I play around with, though.

Posted 24 July 2009 - 08:32 PM

I would just like to confirm that my AR9280 does indeed work in Snow Leopard, although seemingly only in 32bit mode (with Snow Leopard 10a380 anyway). I attached a screenshot showing it working, and I will post my experiences with Snow Leopard in general as time moves on. Cheers.

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Posted 28 July 2009 - 12:04 PM

I was just going to chime in (I've been landlocked for a few days, out in the middle of internetless-land). You were, in fact, right. I stand by the fact that the screens weren't proof enough, but still. I went through hours of jury-rigging with kexts from Snow Leopard and still couldn't manage to get the damn thing to resolve all it's dependencies, to the point where I would, eventually, have been required to install the Snow Leopard kernel itself. Apparently, working one's way down the dependency line, it's wriggles it's way all the way back. And, of course, good luck booting Leopard on SL's kernel.

It's good to know that it -does- in fact work with Snow Leopard though. Any news on that experience would be great (howtofors and wherewithals of the entire installation experience, as it were).

Posted 28 July 2009 - 08:57 PM

I was just going to chime in (I've been landlocked for a few days, out in the middle of internetless-land). You were, in fact, right. I stand by the fact that the screens weren't proof enough, but still. I went through hours of jury-rigging with kexts from Snow Leopard and still couldn't manage to get the damn thing to resolve all it's dependencies, to the point where I would, eventually, have been required to install the Snow Leopard kernel itself. Apparently, working one's way down the dependency line, it's wriggles it's way all the way back. And, of course, good luck booting Leopard on SL's kernel.

It's good to know that it -does- in fact work with Snow Leopard though. Any news on that experience would be great (howtofors and wherewithals of the entire installation experience, as it were).

So far the wireless has been solid with no issues. However, there is still not a 64bit version of the driver (the entire AirPortAtheros.kext) so I have to run it with the -x32 flag in order to use it. That is not a big deal and I imagine a 64bit version will be out soon if not by final release obviously, but oh well.

I also posted some useful kernel extensions in a thread within the same section, so you may want to look into that for stuff like a 64bit/32bit (as in hybrid-compiled) version of VoodooHDA and VoodooPS2. CoreVidia works for video in 32bit mode, but I ended up ditching it in favour of adding my graphics card information into my DSDT file since that produces cleaner results imo and is obviously compatible with both 64bit and 32bit. Cheers. =]

Posted 03 August 2009 - 06:31 PM

That makes for an interesting little prospect -right- there. I went through a little quick and dirty installation, but had some serious issues booting up my little eeepc. Time was a bit on the tight side.

On the other hand, if you're getting that kind of stability out of the wireless connector under snow leopard, then it might just be worth going through the whole shebang again. Although in all fairness, taking into account the amount of trouble reinstalling leopard and then snow leopard on an eeepc entails, I'm almost tempted to hold out 'till September...

Posted 24 August 2009 - 04:05 AM

apparently the atheros card is in time capsules. any chance of getting it to leopard by porting it from there? i dont even know what time capsules are running. i know apple tvs run os x. if they have a wireless n card it could be the same thing. you never know.

Posted 25 August 2009 - 07:11 AM

I'm going to give the latest snow leopard build a go on my eeePC 1008 this weekend which uses this card to see if I can't get it to work. Will report back with how it works out. Would be quite nice not to have to swap it out, and if snow leopard adds Ethernet support too, double bonus.

Posted 03 September 2009 - 03:26 AM

I've installed Snow Leopard on my eeepc 1008ha which has this card, however no wireless devices are detected. I have only played with it briefly, I'll see what more I can do. Snow is very stable on the little eee and quite quick.

Posted 03 September 2009 - 12:26 PM

So, the AR9285 in the eeePC 1008HA is pci168c,2b sadly (not in the list). I've tried manually adding this to the AirPortAtheros.kext as I figure it's very similar to the other models, but not even getting any detection still. Anyone have any ideas about how to approach this? I think we're very close to support for this WLAN card. Other than wireless, my Snow Leo install is running so nicely.

Posted 03 September 2009 - 01:50 PM

So, the AR9285 in the eeePC 1008HA is pci168c,2b sadly (not in the list). I've tried manually adding this to the AirPortAtheros.kext as I figure it's very similar to the other models, but not even getting any detection still. Anyone have any ideas about how to approach this? I think we're very close to support for this WLAN card. Other than wireless, my Snow Leo install is running so nicely.

Yes, I believe this is likely the issues we had with non-supported video cards in same series before(especially ATI), so some modifications should make it work as the wi-fi card is in the ar928x family which looks mostly supported in snow kitty.

By the way, could you get the video running with the snow kexts only, cause I had issues getting it run via EFI strings even with the Device IDs added in them..

Posted 03 September 2009 - 05:10 PM

I have the video registering as GMA950 with an efi string, but cannot get resolution higher than 800x600. I'm also struggling with sound at the moment. Trying to avoid loading up on outside kexts currently, so not using usual leopard methods. Will see what I can do when I get a chance to play tonight.